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Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : China
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0035549360
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041981717
"Découvrez l'épopée captivante de "The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither" par Isabella Bird, une intrépide exploratrice du XIXe siècle. Suivez Bird à travers son périple exaltant à travers la péninsule malaise, capturé avec une plume vive et immersive. Explorez des terres lointaines et des cultures fascinantes, tout en naviguant à travers les défis de l'époque victorienne. Laissez-vous emporter par cette aventure exotique, où l'intrépidité de Bird et son récit vibrant vous transportent dans une époque révolue. Un récit de voyage intemporel imprégné d'aventure, de découverte et de courage, qui continue de captiver les lecteurs à travers les âges."
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : China
ISBN : BSB:BSB11631078
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : China
ISBN : NYPL:33433082430723
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9810844840
In 1880, Isabella Bird visited the Malay Peninsula - romantically dubbed "The Golden Chersonese" - and was still able to refer to it as an almost unknown land. The world's most famous female travel writer of the nineteenth century set sail from Japan and called at Hong Kong, Canton and Saigon before reaching Singapore. Bearing letters of introduction to the elite of Malacca and Penang, Bird was able to observe life on the west coast of the peninsula before steaming upriver through mangrove swamps to explore the interior of the land. From courtroom to elephant back, from the grandeur of Malacca's Stadthuys to the jungle calm of a picturesque Malay village on stilts, this indefatigable Victorian explorer offers invaluable descriptions and delightful hand-drawn sketches of life in late nineteenth-century Singapore and the Malay Peninsula.
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337471331
Author : Alexander Ruxton McMahon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Karen (Southeast Asian People)
ISBN : UCAL:$B49816
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783387026986
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555535542
The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Konemann
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3829050380
Author : ISABELLA L. BIRD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033581658
Author : Paul Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476287522
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368326999
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136200915
Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore where the British Colonial Secretary offered her the opportunity to vist the native states of the Western Archipelago. Because she had such a good introduction, she went and was taken everywhere by local officials. And so Miss Bird's journey was less rugged than her many other trips, but, rather more comfortable and well connected, she enjoyed it immensely.
Author : Alexander Ruxton McMahon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Burma
ISBN : BL:A0024397858
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. A Summer Tour In The Bw6-karen Country. In the hot season of 1869, when the arid heat of the plains made the English cantonments almost intolerable, we were not sorry that duty and pleasure combined, rendered it desirable that we should take up our residence in that portion of the district, inhabited by a tribe called Bghai, or Bwe, the least known, although not the least important of the three great families into which ethnologists have found it convenient to divide the Karen race. Bghai, the English equivalent of the Karen spelling, as rendered by the missionaries, is somewhat arbitrarily required to be pronounced Bway or Btof. We propose, therefore, to adopt the phonetic spelling. The Bw6s are the most numerous of the three families, and comprise in their body, the Kayos or Red Karen3, Tsawkoos, Padoungs, Hashwies, Prays, and other minor clans. The Bw& proper are found on the left bank of the Sittang, immediately above Toungoo, south of the Gaykhos, having the Tsawkoos and other cognate clans to their east. Those located on the affluents of the river wear short drawers like the Gaykhos, with radiating red lines near the bottom, while those south of them wear a white armless sack-like garment, with perpendicular bands fashioned like those patronized by many other tribes. The missionaries have accordingly distinguished them by the names of Pant Bghai (Bw6) and Tunic Bghai (Bwe) on account of these peculiarities in their dress. Similar designations are given them by the Burmese who also call them Leik-bya-gyee (Great Butterfly) and Leik-bya-gnay (Little Butterfly) probably from some fancied resemblance in their dress to these insects. The appellation Bwe1 is borrowed from the Sgan Karens, and the people recognise the term so far as to apply ...